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A PALE GREEN AND RUSSET JADE
‘MONKEY’ GROUP
19th century
Deftly carved as a seated monkey with its left
arm reaching to a younger monkey, detailed with
wrinkled foreheads and gentle expressions, their
backbones defined with finely incised hairs, the
infant kneeling by the elder’s side atop a rock, the
pale translucent stone with a russet-brown skin,
5.3cm (2 1/8in) high; together with a white jade
carving of a dog, 19th century, the recumbent
animal with its head slightly raised above its
front paws, the tail curling around its left haunch,
the stone of pale-white tone with minor russet
inclusions, 5.1cm (2in) long. (2).

£1,500 - 2,000
CNY13,000 - 18,000

十九世紀 青白玉帶皮靈猴抱子把件

Provenance: a European private collection

來源： 歐洲私人收藏

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